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Music has always been a big part of my life. From cleaning the house on Saturday mornings as a five-year-old with records playing to taking flute and piano lessons, I’ve enjoyed the music. How can you make music part of your homeschooling experience? Lessons The most...

In the public school I attended growing up, there were labels. One glance around the cafeteria and you could see students sitting with their particular group, and once you received a certain label it was almost impossible to shake. One of the things I love about...

There are hundreds maybe even thousands of options when it comes to homeschooling. If you talk with a homeschooling parent, they will tell you all about the many different books, classes, and activities their family loves. How can you narrow things down if you are...

One of the greatest perks of homeschool is that . . . it doesn’t always happen at home! Museum, park, musical event – the possible venues for your homeschool classroom are endless! What has been your favorite homeschool field trip? Let us know and you could win a free...

One of the best lessons I have learned as a parent lately was taken from a short lesson in our simple detective textbooks- you know those thin, little supplementary books you buy in a moment of weakness? Yep, one of those. My kids and I learned that one of the most...

Have you ever had an eye-opening moment from a source where you least expected it? (I guess that is why the “ah-ha” feels more amazing than it should in my situation….but I digress.) You see, I was talking with a public school teacher (here is where most homeschool...

If you're a homeschool parent, it's likely that two of your first questions, when you started out teaching your own children, were something like "what kind of teaching methods should I use?" and "should I focus on curriculum designed for my child's current grade...

For some, the thought of adding “extras” to your day sends shivers up your spine and makes you want to hide under the school table. You already have a full to-do list and the idea of seeing more people is a lot to handle. For others, the problem with adding “extras”...

An awareness of the fact that I am a lot more extroverted than I previously knew. I was the shy kid growing up, never wanting to raise my hand in class. But, as an adult, I have learned that my shyness had more to do with some fears and insecurities than a lack of...

The latest family birthday launched us into the teen years with our eldest child. Her sister and I spent an afternoon planning her party by preparing invitations, planning party games and picking a delicious menu. Her friends were invited, as well as some adults who...

Some schools have spirit week, our homeschool has a Special Focus week. A Special Focus week consists of packing away all of our regular textbooks and spending most of our school hours deeply studying a specific skill or area of interest. This year, we became experts...

I seem to have a quarterly ritual of digging into the depths of our school closet to find something I thought I owned, want to use later in the week, or to share a resource with someone else. To the average reader, this might not sound like a huge task, except that...

Valentine’s Day is around the corner. Time to dust off the romantic records and polish the poetry skills. What if I told you that you could potentially bring home something better than a box of chocolates just by sharing what you love about homeschool? On February 15,...

Have you ever had too many intersecting thoughts running through your head at the same time? My brain has been like a tossed salad lately as I’ve watched my older kids grow in frustration with your current language arts program. The jumbled thoughts came because I was...

As I began to homeschool my first grader over the last few months, I felt encouraged by the local homeschooling groups I joined on social media. Just today, one of the other new homeschool moms posted a question I continue to try and figure out “what records do we...

Every once in awhile, you might get a strange feeling. A twinge that you don’t quite fit in, you aren’t worthy of the job you’ve taken on as a homeschooler who may not have a Master’s Degree in education. The imposter syndrome can sneak up on you and make you feel...

I was in a marketing focus group at The Great Homeschool Convention and the first question we were asked was: What excites you most about homeschooling? My answer? Summer vacation! We laughed, but by the end of the school year feeling burned out is something...

Enter to win a free curriculum license! Here’s how: Find Your Fave Go to https://globalstudentnetwork.com/curriculum/ and peruse GSN’s range of curriculum options. You will find curriculum for students from kindergarten through high school including honors, AP,...

Dear Families, Hopefully you’ll be sharing a meal with loved ones and thinking thankful thoughts in the coming days. At Global Student Network, we want you to know we are thankful for YOU, our current and future customers. Here is why. YOU confirmed our quest to bring...

You remember Goldilocks, the little girl in the story of the three bears who was only satisfied if something was “just right.” Mama Bear’s chair may have been soft but Goldilocks knew it wasn’t for her. Papa Bear’s bed may have been the biggest, but it wasn’t the...

Global Student Network (GSN) has provided excellent options in online learning to homeschool families worldwide since 2004. To celebrate this milestone, we are giving away 15 curriculum licenses. Beginning December 15, GSN will award winners based on the details...